Bush 'Disappointed' By Release Of Gorelick Memos

Talon News ^ | 4/30/2004 | Jeff Gannon, White House Correspondent

[Semper Paratus]

Thanks a lot W. Now the story will be about his displeasure and not the memo contents.

[MACVSOG68]

Dubya better learn soon that playing fair does not win elections.

[Republican Red]

The first thing I thought when I heard about this on Fox & Friends this morning was that President Bush might be using a reverse psychology.

ABCNBCCBSCNN refused to report on Gorelick or "The Memo". According to the national media (except Fox) this situation is nonexistent. By President Bush bringing it up, especially in a way negatively affecting Ashcroft, the media will start reporting on it.

Tin foil hat off now.

[ConservativeMajority]

I disagree. The media had no interest in the memos until they became controversial. This provides a platform for everyone to keep the pressure on Gorelick.

Are there more memos?

[epluribus_2]

Anyone think Mary Jo White might make a fine Time person of the year? (Can they do that 9 years late?)

[KellyAdmirer]

I think this just shows that the Bush administration can be nuanced when it wants to be, too.

[gortklattu]

She was screaming and nobody would listen to her. After the FBI's antics in Waco, are you surprised?

[el_texicano]

He added, "I think that the president looks at this and doesn't believe there ought to be finger-pointing. We ought to all be working together to learn the lessons of September 11th..."

Au Contraire Mr. President/Mr. McClellan. How else are we going to get to the bottom of what caused the intelligence breakdown unless we get to the source of the problem? Enough of this "new tone" crap already!!!! If you can't say anything constructive, then keep quiet.

I love you Mr. President but sometimes you really tick me off.

It is not finger pointing, it's called investigation. Whether Gore-lick is prosecuted, held to account or whatever, we need to come to the right conclusions as to the root cause and these memos are IT.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Dems play hardball, we play wiffle-ball.

[PhiKapMom]

Exactly! If the White House had not issued a statement, these memo's would have been buried by the mainstream press. Personally it looks like a good cop, bad cop routine to me to get the information out there.

One of the tip offs is Sen Cornyn speaking out so fast!

Anything that gets the memo's to see the light of day by the incompetent, biased mainstream press works for me!

[maxter]

His "disappointed" is starting to sound a lot like Daschle's "deeply saddened", "deeply troubled." We just want the truth to come out. Does that disappoint you Sir?

[ConservativeMajority]

You are very astute. If you watch what happened at the briefing, the media elites in the front row fell right into the trap.

[js1138]

We just want the truth to come out.

Sounds to me like W is disappointed that those incriminating documents were released and no one noticed.

[PhiKapMom]

It is amazing to me how many times the media and the RATs misjudge this President and fall right in the trap. Guess they never heard of Brer Rabbit and the Briar Patch! :)

[aruanan]

Thanks a lot W. Now the story will be about his displeasure and not the memo contents.

Looks as though your appreciation of Bush has been subverted by the left's claim that he's politically not astute. Bush and company have very skillfully been playing the Democrats against themselves for years now. The memos are now just a matter of record.

[plain talk]

If the White House had not issued a statement, these memo's would have been buried

Right. But why couldn't their statement been used as an opportunity to bring out whats IN the memo's? Then the content would get reported rather than just a report of Bush essentially siding with the dems and playing good cop. OR at least WH could have coordinated such that after their good cop statement, there was a rash of RNC bad cop statements ouitlining whats in the memo's. Maybe I missed that part.

[Sacajaweau]

What Bush said: "I'm very disappointed about the memos" or
"if you haven't seen the memos which I'm disappointed with, look them up".

[hosepipe]

[ He added, "I think that the president looks at this and doesn't believe there ought to be finger-pointing. We ought to all be working together to learn the lessons of September 11th and make sure that we are doing everything that we can to protect the homeland and win the war on terrorism." ]

Starting to get the felling Bush fell off the turnip truck awhile back. and has stayed pretty wooozy since then.. Yep! he's a unite'er and not a divider alright. Smiling like a mongoloid is not to fix Americas "TREASON" problem. Maybe he don't know about the Trojan horse -OR- does and is just sneaking up on them !...

[familyofman]

"Dubya better learn soon that playing fair does not win elections."

Oh how I yearn for the days when the adage "it's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game" was the rule rather than the exception. This is true for many fields; sports, politics, marriage & divorce....